South West has outlined the next stage in its Environment Strategy, WaterFit - accelerating and expanding plans to protect and enhance the South West’s water for future generations.

Anglian Water has awarded an AMP7 contract for river restoration works worth an estimated £7,204,000.

Ofwat has today called on water companies to spell out plans for how they will cut the harm they cause to rivers in England. 

The Rivers Trust has welcomed the prioritisation of the environment for the first time in Defra’s latest Strategic Policy Statement for Ofwat – but expressed concern that the SPS is not yet ambitious enough, and still lacks clarity.

The Government announced yesterday evening that the Environment Bill will be further strengthened with an amendment that will see a duty enshrined in law to ensure water companies secure a progressive reduction in the adverse impacts of discharges from storm overflows.

River groups must work collaboratively across the globe and ‘twin up’ to put pressure on governments, businesses and society to take swift action on rivers to tackle the impacts of climate change on communities, environmental charity Thames21 has warned.

The Environment Agency has completed a £2.5 million project to remove the Dovecliff weir at Egginton, South Derbyshire following a 24-month programme of works.

Listen to this afternoon's House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee hearing at 14.25pm when five water company CEOs will be questioned in person in the EAC's Water Quality inquiry. Click here to watch live.

Water companies have set out ambitious plans to dramatically improve the health of England’s rivers, including the creation of a new Rivers Act and the establishment of a new national action plan.

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has launched two new consultations on plans to modernise water abstraction and enhance the Environment Agency's (EA) powers to protect groundwater.